An assessment of geoengineering technologies will be a component of the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The announcement came last week after an IPCC meeting of geoengineering experts who gathered to provide input for its next report, which is due out in 2013–14. The upcoming report will include scientific and technical assessments of proposed geoengineering techniques, their possible effects on ecosystems, and the impacts they may have on different parts of . . .